You ambassadors have unanimously approved the provisional application off the You UK Post Brexit trade deal that was agreed on Christmas Day.

The ambassadors of all 27 EU member states have provisions accepted the trade and cooperation agreement.

On Wednesday, the president off the EU Council Shall Michelle and the president of the EU Commission, Ursula von Julyan, are expected to officially sign off on the trade agreement.

But that has to be ratified in a European Parliament vote, which will be early next year.

On Thursday, MPs will vote on the deal in the UK parliament.

It all means that tariff free trade will be provisionally allowed after Britain leaves the EU single market at the new year.

Well, let's get the very latest from our Brussels correspondent Kevin Connolly on eso.

Kevin, just explain exactly what this means.

EU ambassadors unanimously approving the application of the deal.

Yeah, I suppose the best way of looking at this is frankly, it would have been amazing if they have not done so.

Of course, the member state governments, the ambassador's themselves, have been kept in the loop at every stage of the negotiations, so this is really a very formal ratification.

It simply means that the deal is working its way through the use layers of decision making.

And no one has ever accused the EU of not having enough decision making layers.

So there are a few more bureaucratic bits and pieces to do this week on.

Then there is an event of some political importance to come at some point, we think, quite early in the New year when the European Parliament will be asked to approve it because, of course, the European Parliament eventually in December said.

Look, it's getting too late in December for us to do this officially before the new year.

That is why we have what's called provisional application.

That's the EU member states doing the deal on saying to the European Parliament that your consideration will come a bit later in the process a few weeks down the road.

All right, Kevin, thank you very much indeed.

Kevin Connolly there for us in Brussels Well, fishermen continued to insist that they will be absolutely worse offers a result off the U.

K's post Brexit trade deal.

That's according to the chair off the National Federation of Fishermen's organizations.

Andrew Locker said he was angry and disappointed that the industry had Bean, in his words betrayed by Boris Johnson.

Now that has been rejected by Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove, who said today that the UK is in a stronger position than it waas in the side, the U and in the common fisheries policy.

So who is right?

Let's talk to our reality check correspondent Chris Morris, who is with me now on Chris Fisher is not a huge part of the UK economy, but very central to this Brexit trade deal and the talks right up until the last moment.

Yeah, I mean, we know they were one of the very last issues to be resolved because of the political sensitivities, not just in the UK but in places like France as well.

Where you know, Emmanuel Macron has a presidential election to fight next year.

And so, um yes, fishing waas important.

What was it a good deal for the UK fishing fleet?

Well, it I think when Michael Gove says they're a much better position to begin with, it is only pretty marginal on let's look at some of the numbers about what the deal actually said to begin with, there's going to be that the argument towards the end of the negotiation was the size of the cut for U boats fishing in UK waters.

And it's going to be a 25% cut in the amount of fish they can catch on That will be phased in over this 5.5 year transition period, which means that U boats are still gonna be catching quite a lot of fish in UK waters.

The argument for that is, well, we don't actually have the boats to catch them at the moment, and the government is saying we're going to put in money to increase the size of the fishing fleet over that period.

But it's not, I suppose, if you like an instant taking back control of all UK waters and that's why some fishermen are a bit unhappy.

Michael gave was saying, Well, the you wanted a transition period of I think 14 years and they haggled.

UK offered three and they ended up with 5.5.

So he was saying actually, that wasn't bad deal, So if you look at the numbers on the top line there.

The U K wanted an 80% cut for UK boats and and the and the EU offered 18.

So it's much nearer the EU position on the length of the transition.

It's near the UK position, so a bit of given take.

It's what happens after the 5.5 year transition.

That is interesting, if you like, because that's when it reverts to annual negotiations on access to fishing waters.

Andi In theory, at that point, the UK can say, right, we're gonna shut out U boats all together.

We're going to take back all our quota.

That's it.

But there is a presumption in this deal.

It's written into the deal that the 25% cut is going to continue for a while on the UK has to make a choice to change that.

If it does so, then there is the opportunity again written into the deal that, for example, tariffs could be put on our fish exports to the EU market or potentially on a tariff on other things that we sell to the EU as well.

So it Z in fish, we see what we see in the whole deal.

Yes, we've won in theory, the sovereignty, the right to go our own way.

But there will be a price to pay for it.

On when Boris Johnson announced the deal, he wore a tie with fish on it, sort of implying it was a victory on fisheries.

But fishing leaders, they're saying they'd be betrayed.

Are they right to be that angry?

I think the problem is some of the rhetoric during the referendum and after suggested, we're taking back control of our fishing waters 100% straight away.

End of story.

In reality, that was never going to happen.

But I think one of the reasons they're angry, I mean, for example, one of the things examples was given quite a lot was was in that amount of cod that gets caught by U boats in the eastern English Channel.

It's 90% of all the cod.

In 5.5 years time, it's still gonna be 90%.

So there are specific species where we've done well, other species.

It's a pretty small amount of fish, actually, but that's why people are angry and I think the other thing is that a lot of the fishermen in small boats who fish near into the shore.

We're hoping that U boats would be would be kicked out if you like, of waters up to 12 miles from the UK coastline on That's not the case.

The U boats are still in some circumstances going to be able to continue fishing in those waters.

So most of the benefits for the UK fishing fleets are going to be for the big trawlers, some of which, actually, even though they're British boats, are owned by foreign companies.

I think a lot of the smaller fishermen are thinking that they've been a bit for gotten Chris.

Thank you very much indeed, Chris Morris there.